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Current Biology, 2012 SummaryPeople often associate the animal phylum ‘Mollusca’ with their most species-rich or popular subgroups: gastropods (snails, whelks, slugs, and limpets), bivalves (mussels and clams), and cephalopods (the pearl boat Nautilus, sepias, squids and octopuses, and the many fossil ammonites and belemnites).
Haszprunar, Gerhard, Wanninger, Andreas
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The evolution of molluscs [PDF]
Biological Reviews, 2018 ABSTRACTMolluscs are extremely diverse invertebrate animals with a rich fossil record, highly divergent life cycles, and considerable economical and ecological importance. Key representatives include worm‐like aplacophorans, armoured groups (e.g. polyplacophorans, gastropods, bivalves) and the highly complex cephalopods. Molluscan origins and evolution
Andreas Wanninger, Tim Wollesen
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Biology, 2021 Pomacea canaliculata is a freshwater gastropod known for being both a highly invasive species and one of the possible intermediate hosts of the mammalian parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis.
Federica Boraldi +4 more
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Aquaculture Reports, 2016 Many communities of fishermen throughout the Caribbean are facing economic difficulties due to the decline of marine resources following decades of overexploitation and poor governance of fish stocks.
Diego Valderrama +2 more
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The Mantle Transcriptome of Chamelea gallina (Mollusca: Bivalvia) and Shell Biomineralization
Animals, 2022 The striped venus Chamelea gallina is a bivalve mollusc that represents one of the most important fishery resources of the Adriatic Sea. In this work, we investigated for the first time the ability of this species to modulate the expression of genes ...
Federica Carducci +7 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Adult molluscs produce shells with diverse morphologies and ornamentations, different colour patterns and microstructures. The larval shell, however, is a phenotypically more conserved structure.
Alessandro Cavallo +4 more
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Biology, 2023 After amputation, granular hemocytes infiltrate the blastema of regenerating cephalic tentacles of the freshwater snail Pomacea canaliculata. Here, the circulating phagocytic hemocytes were chemically depleted by injecting the snails with clodronate ...
Giulia Bergamini +9 more
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Fishes, 2023 The windowpane oyster Placuna placenta lives in brackish coastal waters and has long been economically important to the Philippines because of its durable and translucent shell, which is used as a glass substitute and material for making windowpanes and ...
Jessica M. Rustia +5 more
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Marine Drugs, 2020 Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) haemocytes are potential sources of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). To study the immune response to Vibrio splendidus and identify new AMPs, an original approach was developed based on a differential transcriptomic study and
Louis Benoist +5 more
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2018 We present a taxonomic and palaeoecological analysis of a continental mollusc fauna from a mammoth-bearing succession near Bullendorf in Lower Austria.
DARIA CAROBENE +3 more
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